If the handsome young miner who rescued Molly Osborne from her brutal stepfather had married her out of hand, they would both have been saved a peck of trouble. But then, of course, there would have been no need for Mrs. Patrick MacGill to have written "The Bartered Bride' (Jenkins, 7s, 6d.). As it was the poor girl had a pretty poor time. Sold to the drunken Earle, she runs away from him at the railway station, but he finds her again and tricks her into a false marriage. She does quite a lot of running, poor little girl. but al] comes right in the end, and we leave her in the arms of her faithful iniaer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.